Report on the Lakes and Rivers Water and Water Powers of the Province of Ontario - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891. Excerpt: ... machinist, printer, paper manufacturers and scores of others too numerous to mention, is now (as almost every one knows) performed in a great measure by machinery. But in nothing, perhaps, has the, substitution of steam power for the labor of man and animals been so important or so fraught with blessings as in the matter of transportation. The speed, ease and comfort, even luxury, with which it is possible now to travel from place to place; or, if desired, around the world, by means of locomotives and steamships, is in striking contrast to the protracted toil and hardship--if not positive danger to life--incurred by our ancestors when compelled to undertake journeys of even moderate length. Nor is it possible to over-estimate the importance and value of railways, in regard of the facilities thev afford for the distribution and exchange of the products of the soil, the mine, the forest and the sea, as well as of the factory and the mill. Indeed, it is not easy to name any discovery or application of power--that has done so much to develop, not merely the resources of a few countries, but of the world at large--that has done so much to encourage trade, commerce and personal intercourse between individuals, communities and nations; that has done so much to increase knowledge, remove prejudices and to promote the comfort, welfare and happiness of mankind generally. And yet this great railway system is, so to speak, a thing of yesterday. It may be said to have been inaugurated only when the Liverpool and Manchester railway was formally opened, an event of which the writer--standing by his father's side on Chat Moss in the year 1830--was an eye witness. Finally, in its relation to light, heat and electricity, it has now been satisfactorily proved that power, fo...

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